Wikisource:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

This project relates to the adding of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica to Wikisource. This edition is considered one of the best reference works of all time, and was the biggest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica with:

• 29 volumes
• 44 million words
• 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise.

As such, it was considered to represent a summary of human knowledge in the early 20th Century.

Sub-pages

• /faq — Frequently Asked Questions for the project; look here first for the answers to your questions.
• /Style Manual
• /Transclusion
• /Advertisement

Disclaimer

See Wikisource:Project disclaimers/1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Structure and points of discussion

This is a work in progress, feel free to add to the list of things to consider ;)

• Layout: images, navigation etc.
• Organising wikipedians for this mammoth task.
• Linking to corresponding articles on Wikipedia where appropriate
• Creating categories for content. I.E. Cities, biographies, elements, etc. Just like Wikipedia.
• Providing English translations of Latin and French passages (EB1911 doesn't do this).
• Contrasting smaller (detailed information or extended quotes) with larger fonted portions of an entry.

Style Manual

• The EB1911 style manual is a general style manual that should be used specifically to this project. Mainly, it is a way to standardize the look and feel of going from one article to another, suggestions on formatting, and in general some tips on what to look for when trying to improve these articles over the raw text from external sources.

Using transclusion

Few people read a volume of a long encyclopaedia from cover to cover. It is a reference work, and the natural unit for the reader is the article. To do the two things at once (reproduce the paginated text, produce single articles) is quite possible, using the transclusion of whole or partial pages into other pages. For one fundamental aspect of the activity of the project, checking the text against the image of the original in our djvu files, this has a clear advantage: correction of an error found with the text next to the image will propagate into the free-standing article. And then anyone can go and verify a spelling or date (say), and make a change if one is needed.

The technical requirements to do the transclusion are twofold: markup in the Page: namespace, which is simple and something of which the reader will not be aware; and the transclusion syntax applied by the article creator, which lives on the article page.

The current position is that the project uses two styles of transclusion, and there are numerous pages created simply by article text plus header only. Therefore there are three types of pages that you will see if you go to the edit tab on a EB1911 article. The project does not prescribe which way is "correct". For more details see /Transclusion.

Wikimedia Sister Project Advertisement

The Wikimedia Sister Project Ad is a recruiting tool that is to be edited by current participants to try and get some more help here when we are ready for them. The intention is that the contents of this page will be posted in the "Water Cooler" section of the respective Wikimedia projects to advertise this project among other Wikimedia users. As of right now this is just a draft, and add comments in the Talk page about this if you don't like the tone before it gets sent out.

The targets (for now) of participation and announcement will be on Meta, Wikipedia, and Wiktionary. Wikibooks has plenty of advertising for now, although a general announcement might be in order too, at least to formally let everybody know the project is finally over here at this Wikimedia project.

See comment on talk pageApwoolrich 14:30, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Participants

Add your name here with ~~~~ if you wish to join the team!

• GregRobson 9 July 2005 12:46 (UTC)
• —Zhaladshar ^(Talk) 9 July 2005 15:50 (UTC) (although I can't start until the 17th of July)
• Robert Horning 9 July 2005 17:38 (UTC)
• Apwoolrich 20:23, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• --LEMPERERUR1988 20:21, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
• — PhilHibbs | WP:talk | talk 09:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Brian0918 12:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
• Tim Starling 03:44, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
• J.Steinbock 02:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Danny 04:59, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Pmsyyz 08:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• Antireconciler 06:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
• nikemoto2511 11:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
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• Politicaljunkie 21:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
• Banjee ca 03:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
• Badbilltucker 18:25, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Laverock ( Talk ) 09:06, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
• John Kenney 03:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
• Psychless 04:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
• WikiKing 17:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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• Chaucelle 07:56, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
• Toby 14:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
• Jeepday 19:56, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
• Anonymous101 12:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
• Bob Burkhardt (a.k.a. Library Guy) 21:36, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
• RDBury (talk) 20:17, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
• Dkb (talk) 03:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
• —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:59, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
• Manoel Fernández^Msg 16:24, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
• --Beachcomber (talk) 12:26, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
• Innotata (talk) 22:55, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
• --Angelprincess72 (talk) 09:43, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
• Amir E. Aharoni (talk)
• musicGUYGUY 01:22, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
• --Tommy Jantarek (talk) 15:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
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• Animalparty (talk) 22:43, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
• Jklamo (talk) 17:22, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
• Kastrel (talk) 11:41, 20 April 2016 (UTC)
• FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 18:24, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
• Chuntuk (talk) 12:00, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
• DutchTreat (talk) 12:29, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

See also

• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• Scanned pages at User:Tim Starling/ScanSet PNG demo — Tim has written a MediaWiki extension to view scanned page images from Andreas Grosz's CD/DVD sets. Brian0918 obtained a DVD and uploaded the images.
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Category:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Sources

Commons sources (a full set of DJVU files, by volume) These are large (around 85 MB) and may not load in all browsers.

The 29 volumes are named:

Volume DjVu	Scan index	From	To
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 01.djvu	A	Androphagi
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 02.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 02.djvu	Andros, Sir Edmund	Austria
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 03.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 03.djvu	Austria, Lower	Bisectrix
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 04.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 04.djvu	Bisharin	Calgary
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 05.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 05.djvu	Calhoun, John Caldwell	Chatelaine
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 06.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 06.djvu	Châtelet	Constantine
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 07.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 07.djvu	Constantine Pavlovich	Demidov
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 08.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 08.djvu	Demijohn	Edward the Black Prince
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 09.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 09.djvu	Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin	Evangelical Association
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 10.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 10.djvu	Evangelical Church Conference	Francis Joseph I
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 11.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 11.djvu	Franciscans	Gibson, William Hamilton
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 12.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 12.djvu	Gichtel, Johann Georg	Harmonium
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 13.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 13.djvu	Harmony	Hurstmonceaux
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 14.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 14.djvu	Husband	Italic
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 15.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 15.djvu	Italy	Kyshtym
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 16.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 16.djvu	L	Lord Advocate
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 17.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 17.djvu	Lord Chamberlain	Mecklenburg
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 18.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 18.djvu	Medal	Mumps
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 19.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 19.djvu	Mun, Adrien Albert Marie de	Oddfellows, Order of
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 20.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 20.djvu	Ode	Payment of members
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 21.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 21.djvu	Payn, James	Polka
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 22.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 22.djvu	Poll	Reeves, John Sims
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 23.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 23.djvu	Refectory	Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 24.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 24.djvu	Sainte-Claire Deville, Étienne Henri	Shuttle
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 25.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 25.djvu	Shuválov, Peter Andreivich	Subliminal self
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 26.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 26.djvu	Submarine mines	Tom-Tom
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 27.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 27.djvu	Tonalite	Vesuvius
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 28.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 28.djvu	Vetch	Zymotic diseases
[[:File:EB1911 - Volume 29.djvu]]	Index:EB1911 - Volume 29.djvu	Index	List of contributors

Additional sources that can be used to help in compiling the text of EB:

Free, public-domain sources for 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica text

Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia:

Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia (As of 31 January 2015)
Section	From		To
Volume 1:	A	–	Androphagi
Volume 2.1:	Andros, Sir Edmund	–	Anise
Volume 2.2:	Anjar	–	Apollo
Volume 2.3:	Apollodorus	–	Aral
Volume 2.4:	Aram, Eugene	–	Arcueil
Volume 2.5:	Arculf	–	Armour, Philip
Volume 2.6:	Armour Plates	–	Arundel, Earls of
Volume 2.7:	Arundel, Thomas	–	Athens
Volume 2.8:	Atherstone	–	Austria
Volume 3.1:	Austria, Lower	–	Bacon
Volume 3.2:	Baconthorpe	–	Bankruptcy
Volume 3.3:	Banks	–	Bassoon
Volume 3.4:	Basso-relievo	–	Bedfordshire
Volume 3.5:	Bedlam	–	Benson, George
Volume 3.6:	Bent, James	–	Bibirine
Volume 3.7:	Bible	–	Bisectrix
Volume 4.1:	Bisharin	–	Bohea
Volume 4.2:	Bohemia	–	Borgia, Francis
Volume 4.3:	Borgia, Lucrezia	–	Bradford, John
Volume 4.4:	Bradford, William	–	Brequigny, Louis
Volume 4.5:	Brescia	–	Bulgaria
Volume 4.6:	Bulgaria	–	Calgary
Volume 5.1:	Calhoun	–	Camoens
Volume 5.2:	Camorra	–	Cape Colony
Volume 5.3:	Capefigue	–	Carneades
Volume 5.4:	Carnegie, Andrew	–	Casus Belli
Volume 5.5:	Cat	–	Celt
Volume 5.6:	Celtes, Konrad	–	Ceramics
Volume 5.7:	Cerargyrite	–	Charing Cross
Volume 5.8:	Chariot	–	Chatelaine
Volume 6.1:	Châtelet	–	Chicago
Volume 6.2:	Chicago, University of	–	Chiton
Volume 6.3:	Chitral	–	Cincinnati
Volume 6.4:	Cincinnatus	–	Cleruchy
Volume 6.5:	Clervaux	–	Cockade
Volume 6.6:	Cockaigne	–	Columbus, Christopher
Volume 6.7:	Columbus	–	Condottiere
Volume 6.8:	Conduction, Electric
Volume 7.1:	Prependix
Volume 7.2:	Constantine Pavlovich	–	Convention
Volume 7.3:	Convention	–	Copyright
Volume 7.4:	Coquelin	–	Costume
Volume 7.5:	Cosway	–	Coucy
Volume 7.6:	Coucy-le-Château	–	Crocodile
Volume 7.7:	Crocoite	–	Cuba
Volume 7.8:	Cube	–	Daguerre, Louis
Volume 7.9:	Dagupan	–	David
Volume 7.10:	David, St	–	Demidov
Volume 8.2:	Demijohn	–	Destructors
Volume 8.3:	Destructors	–	Diameter
Volume 8.4:	Diameter	–	Dinarchus
Volume 8.5:	Dinard	–	Dodsworth
Volume 8.6:	Dodwell	–	Drama
Volume 8.7:	Drama	–	Dublin
Volume 8.8:	Dübner	–	Dyeing
Volume 8.9:	Dyer	–	Echidna
Volume 8.10:	Echinoderma	–	Edward
Volume 9.1:	Edwardes	–	Ehrenbreitstein
Volume 9.2:	Ehud	–	Electroscope
Volume 9.3:	Electrostatics	–	Engis
Volume 9.4:	England	–	English Finance
Volume 9.5:	English History
Volume 9.6:	English Language	–	Epsom Salts
Volume 9.7:	Equation	–	Ethics
Volume 9.8:	Ethiopia	–	Evangelical Association
Volume 10.1:	Evangelical Church Conference	–	Fairbairn, Sir William
Volume 10.2:	Fairbanks, Erastus	–	Fens
Volume 10.3:	Fenton, Edward	–	Finistere
Volume 10.4:	Finland	–	Fleury, Andre
Volume 10.5:	Fleury, Claude	–	Foraker
Volume 10.6:	Foraminifera	–	Fox, Edward
Volume 10.7:	Fox, George	–	France
Volume 10.8:	France	–	Francis Joseph I.
Volume 11.1:	Franciscans	–	French Language
Volume 11.2:	French Literature	–	Frost, William
Volume 11.3:	Frost	–	Fyzabad
Volume 11.4:	G	–	Gaskell, Elizabeth
Volume 11.5:	Gassendi, Pierre	–	Geocentric
Volume 11.6:	Geodesy	–	Geometry
Volume 11.7:	Geoponici	–	Germany
Volume 11.8:	Germany	–	Gibson, William
Volume 12.1:	Gichtel, Johann	–	Glory
Volume 12.2:	Gloss	–	Gordon, Charles George
Volume 12.3:	Gordon, Lord George	–	Grasses
Volume 12.4:	Grasshopper	–	Greek Language
Volume 12.5:	Greek Law	–	Ground-Squirrel
Volume 12.6:	Groups, Theory of	–	Gwyniad
Volume 12.7:	Gyantse	–	Hallel
Volume 12.8:	Haller, Albrecht	–	Harmonium
Volume 13.1:	Harmony	–	Heanor
Volume 13.2:	Hearing	–	Helmond
Volume 13.3:	Helmont, Jean	–	Hernosand
Volume 13.4:	Hero	–	Hindu Chronology
Volume 13.5:	Hinduism	–	Home, Earls of
Volume 13.6:	Home, Daniel	–	Hortensius, Quintus
Volume 13.7:	Horticulture	–	Hudson Bay
Volume 13.8:	Hudson River	–	Hurstmonceaux
Volume 14.1:	Husband	–	Hydrolysis
Volume 14.2:	Hydromechanics	–	Ichnography
Volume 14.3:	Ichthyology	–	Independence
Volume 14.4:	Independence, Declaration of	–	Indo-European Languages
Volume 14.5:	Indole	–	Insanity
Volume 14.6:	Inscriptions	–	Ireland, William Henry
Volume 14.7:	Ireland	–	Isabey, Jean Baptiste
Volume 14.8:	Isabnormal Lines	–	Italic
Volume 15.1:	Italy	–	Jacobite Church
Volume 15.2:	Jacobites	–	Japan (part)
Volume 15.3:	Japan (part)	–	Jeveros
Volume 15.4:	Jevons, Stanley	–	Joint
Volume 15.5:	Joints	–	Justinian I.
Volume 15.6:	Justinian II.	–	Kells
Volume 15.7:	Kelly, Edward	–	Kite
Volume 15.8:	Kite-Flying	–	Kyshtym
Volume 16.1:	L	–	Lamellibranchia
Volume 16.2:	Lamennais, Robert de	–	Latini, Brunetto
Volume 16.3:	Latin Language	–	Lefebvre, François-Joseph
Volume 16.4:	Lefebvre, Tanneguy	–	Letronne, Jean Antoine
Volume 16.5:	Letter	–	Lightfoot, John
Volume 16.6:	Lightfoot, Joseph	–	Liquidation
Volume 16.7:	Liquid Gases	–	Logar
Volume 16.8:	Logarithm	–	Lord Advocate
Volume 17.1:	Lord Chamberlain	–	Luqman
Volume 17.2:	Luray Cavern	–	Mackinac Island
Volume 17.3:	McKinley, William	–	Magnetism, Terrestrial
Volume 17.4:	Magnetite	–	Malt
Volume 17.5:	Malta	–	Map, Walter
Volume 17.6:	Map	–	Mars
Volume 17.7:	Mars	–	Matteawan
Volume 17.8:	Matter	–	Mecklenburg

• Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders
  • A place to help out if you want to get more EB texts available and proofread: List of Distributed Proofreaders "Britannica" projects

Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. 1911, separate volumes in several formats, on the Internet Archive:

Internet Archive – Text Archives Individual Volumes
Volume	DjVu	From	To
Volume 1	DjVu 1	A	Androphagi
Volume 2	DjVu 2	Andros, Sir Edmund	Austria
Volume 3	DjVu 3	Austria, Lower	Bisectrix
Volume 4	DjVu 4	Bisharin	Calgary
Volume 5	DjVu 5	Calhoun, John Caldwell	Chatelaine
Volume 6	DjVu 6	Châtelet	Constantine
Volume 7	DjVu 7	Constantine Pavlovich	Demidov
Volume 8	DjVu 8	Demijohn	Edward the Black Prince
Volume 9	DjVu 9	Edwardes, Sir Herbert Benjamin	Evangelical Association
Volume 10	DjVu 10	Evangelical Church Conference	Francis Joseph I
Volume 11	DjVu 11	Franciscans	Gibson, William Hamilton
Volume 12	DjVu 12	Gichtel, Johann Georg	Harmonium
Volume 13	DjVu 13	Harmony	Hurstmonceaux
Volume 14	DjVu 14	Husband	Italic
Volume 15	DjVu 15	Italy	Kyshtym
Volume 16	DjVu 16	L	Lord Advocate
Volume 17	DjVu 17	Lord Chamberlain	Mecklenburg
Volume 18	DjVu 18	Medal	Mumps
Volume 19	DjVu 19	Mun, Adrien Albert Marie de	Oddfellows, Order of
Volume 20	DjVu 20	Ode	Payment of members
Volume 21	DjVu 21	Payn, James	Polka
Volume 22	DjVu 22	Poll	Reeves, John Sims
Volume 23	DjVu 23	Refectory	Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Volume 24	DjVu 24	Sainte-Claire Deville, Étienne Henri	Shuttle
Volume 25	DjVu 25	Shuválov, Peter Andreivich	Subliminal self
Volume 26	DjVu 26	Submarine mines	Tom-Tom
Volume 27	DjVu 27	Tonalite	Vesuvius
Volume 28	DjVu 28	Vetch	Zymotic diseases
Volume 29	DjVu 29	Index	List of contributors
Volume 1 of 1922 supp		Abbe	English History
Volume 2 of 1922 supp		English History	Oyama, Iwao
Volume 3 of 1922 supp		Pacific Ocean Islands	Zuloaga
Reader's Guide - 1913

• archive.org: ninth edition, 1878
• archive.org: a little of the fourteenth edition, 1929

Google Book Search:

• Format: all have machine-readable plain text, with many typos
• Completeness: complete
• The text is not accessible to many IP addresses outside the USA however the same sources are available at the Internet Archive (See above)

Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7

Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12 Volume 13 Volume 14

Volume 15 Volume 16 Volume 17 Volume 18 Volume 19 Volume 20 Volume 21

Volume 22 Volume 23 Volume 24 Volume 25 Volume 26 Volume 27 Volume 28

DJVU pages provided by Tim Starling (historical)

User:Tim Starling's Full-page scans in TIFF format removed from Wikisource in December 2012‎.

However User:Tim Starling's home page still provides a link to a tar archive of the pages.

Torrent download at:
thepiratebay.org: "Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911" djvu lossless torrent of 29 djvu volumes, losslessly created from the Tim Starling TIFF files. .torrent

In 2021 all remaining links the pages were removed from en Wikipedia (dead links for only 9 years!)

Format: DJVU. Completeness: ?

Other sources for 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica text

• The "LoveToKnow Classic Encyclopedia" was a wiki that was "based" on the original encyclopædia text, and claimed copyright on the modified text.
  • It later displayed the notice "Thank you for visiting the 1911 encyclopedia. This site is no longer available." From 2018 it displays "404 - File or directory not found."

• The JRank "Online Encyclopedia" includes original and contributed articles; the originals may have been edited and the collection is subject to a claimed copyright.
  • Format: mediawiki wiki text
  • Completeness: incomplete?; almost complete?
  • Quality: needs formatting and proofreading
  • includes a lot of hidden text, making copy and paste very difficult. Firefox extension CleanHide removes the hidden text to make copy and paste simple.
• Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, www.theodora.com, <http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/>. 
  • unedited, html version, from scan/ocr of the original text, with interactive alphabetical index, and Google translation into Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Hindi, Arabic and Portuguese.
  • Use Earwig's Copyvio to help proof page text using the Theodora version as a source e.g. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikisource&title=Page%3AEB1911+-+Volume+28.djvu%2F565&oldid=&use_engine=0&use_links=0&turnitin=0&action=compare&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheodora.com%2Fencyclopedia%2Fw%2Fthe_west_indies.html
• 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, StudyLight.org, <http://www.studylight.org/enc/bri/>. 
  • "Containing 35,820 entries cross-referenced and cross-linked to other resources on StudyLight.org". "Copyright Statement[:] these [EB 1911] files are public domain".
• Classic EB is an aggregation of Project Gutenberg projects in Wordpress format, one post per article. As of September 14 2015, the domain seems to have reverted to its hosting site. When it was live, it had:
  • Completeness: lags PG releases.
  • Quality: Thoroughly proofed and HTML formatted.
  • Article identification: Site search; article urls have the format eb.tbicl.org/article-name (approximately).